Sammy’s Oscars Mistake
At the 89th Academy Awards, Actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway made history when they accidentally announced the wrong winner for Best Picture – the most important award at the Oscars. As it turns out, they weren’t the first. Sammy Davis Jr. had some Oscar mishaps of his own; he did the same exact thing in 1964. That year, he was selected to announce the winner for Best Music Score.
Sammy Davis Jr and Barbra Streisand. Photo by Globe Photos / mediapunch / Shutterstock
The winner was supposed to be Andre Previn for Irma La Douce. However, Davis was given the wrong envelope, and it read, John Addison for Tom Jones. Sammy played it off pretty well, saying, “Wait till the NAACP hears about this,” and he got a laughing response from the crowd.